man pages - was: wiki vs documentation

Lars Noodén lars.nooden at gmail.com
Thu Sep 19 16:48:21 UTC 2013


On 09/19/2013 07:45 PM, Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph wrote:
> Man pages are typically written by the upstream software project and
> then just included in the packages we ship with Ubuntu. As such, any
> edits of them should probably be done upstream rather than patching
> the Ubuntu packages with our own additions, unless they are
> Ubuntu-specific changes that we're looking to document.

What would be the best way then to go about proposing edits to man pages
if it requires collaboration upstream?

Regards,
/Lars



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